Wired reported today on progress being made at the LHC at discovery of the Higgs Boson. They also futuregaze a bit and declare that formal discovery may even be announced in a few weeks' time... Crazy stuff.

“The bottom line though is now clear: There’s
something there which looks like a Higgs is supposed to look,” wrote mathematician Peter Woit on his blog, Not
Even Wrong. According to Woit, there are rumors of new data that would be
the most compelling evidence yet for the long-sought Higgs.

The possible news has a number of physics bloggers speculating that LHC
scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs during the International Conference on
High Energy Physics, which takes place in Melbourne, Australia, July 4 to
11.

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Team Into The Unknown's primary aim is to encourage people to participate in the Large Hadron Collider's Grid project - to look for, amongst other things, the elusive Higgs Boson.

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